Sometimes I wish I was Michael Jordan

I strongly believe that basketball is the best sport because the sport gets you active and healthy. Basketball was invented in December 1891. A Canadian-born professor claimed the honour of throwing a soccer ball into one of two peach baskets.

The dream team, which you know as the USA basketball team of the Olympic Games, is the team that I was inspired by. In America, basketball is very big like rugby in Australia. The LA Lakers are the best team to ever touch a basketball.

I wish so much that I could be in the dream team one day or even the Lakers. Three of the best basketball teams are the Chicago Bulls, the Atlanta Hawks and the one and only LA Lakers. One time my team got 29 goals to 0. That was the best score I have ever got in my life.

And every time I go to basketball I make new friends like Ella, Cam, Josh and lots more but I don’t know their names. Sometimes I wish I was Michael Jordon. Actually, always.

A few weeks ago my brother Nazar got into my group in basketball and Nazar got two goals, but not in the same hoop. He scored one for our team and one for the other team. Most year one kids don’t get into the big group. It’s usually just year four or five so I was proud of him. Once there was only 10 seconds left on the clock but at the last second I got a goal, so I remember that.

Imagine doing a slam dunk. If Mr Grant can’t slam dunk, what hope is there for the rest of us?

Just be grateful

Every day in the middle of Africa in a country called Ethiopia, people are dying, kids are starving. Most people don’t even know what starving means. And all people should fast because it shows you what the people in Africa are feeling this second. You know you’re going to eat but the people in Africa do not know when they are going to eat again.

Think about not eating for days, weeks, months. It just makes me sad. Even if they get something to eat they might only get one piece of bread. In Muslim countries like Egypt we fast in Ramadan. In Egypt there are lots of poor people.

Go Africa!